#LoveCPH: The Botanical Gardens…

I mentioned yesterday that blue skies were on the menu for a few days this past holiday. It’s a funny thing about Copenhagen – I’ve had gray skies in other places I’ve lived but there is just something about here that makes that gray even grayer and we can go days without seeing the sun. No joke. Those happy lamps are seeming like a good idea right about now.

But the flip side of this is that on the days when the sun does come out, now we know to pretty much drop everything we’re doing and run outside. Some days, you only get the patch of blue for a few minutes before the clouds roll in again, some days, we’re just really lucky. Like this day a couple of weeks ago when diplo-tot and I set out to see the national museum (btw, they have a great art atelier for kids in there where they can paint to their heart’s content), but the sun came out and had a detour walk in the Botanical Gardens. On a winter day, there aren’t exactly a lot of botanicals in bloom but it had it’s own winter beauty.

It was cold and a good thing we bundled up since that wind was biting but that extra Vitamin D was so worth it. And we discovered the Botanical pavillion in the middle – a green house with a couple of stories worth of plants. And with its tropical plants and tropical temperatures, this has to be about the warmest place in Copenhagen (a bit of a toss up between this and the Amazon exhibit that’s part of the aquarium – if you ever need to warm up in CPH, that’s where to go…that or a sauna…)

The light was just lovely – with those golden rays you’d think it was five or six in the afternoon but it was actually just past noon if you can believe it…

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